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Bode Thomas: Said to be an excellent but arrogant lawyer

by SIAKA MOMOH

January 28, 2018 | 2:04 am

Chief Bode Thomas (full name Olabode Akanbi Thomas) who lived between October 1919 and November 1953 was a contemporary of Obafemi Awolowo, Rotimi Williams, and Remi Fani-Kayode. This Nigerian lawyer, politician, statesman and traditional aristocrat, distinguished himself as both a colonial minister of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria and a nobleman and privy counsellor…